On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:01:12 -0600
Shirish Pargaonkar <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Jeff, Thanks. Need to think this over.
> 
> Wish there were a commands/subcommands like getpathinfo
> and gethandleinfo with infolevels to determine what functions
> GetEffectiveRightsFromAcl and AccessCheckByType provide.
> 
> Perhaps these are Windows APIs providing these type of services
> and there is a named pipe providing these services.

Even if there were, there would be nothing preventing the access rights
from changing after you fetch the permissions but before you enforce
them. That's a situation that can't be prevented if you're relying on
the client to enforce permissions.

-- 
Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
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